Thank you to the 27 donors who dug so deeply and donated over £3,600 for our new Kickstarter class. There were a few donors who were exceptionally generous – McGinness Associates, Main Street Consulting and Sam McGinness - so a special thanks to them.

For those of you who don’t know, the Kickstarter class will aim to help reintegrate children who have dropped out of school or who have never attended school in the first place, back into the school environment. These are often the kids who are least well off and they will benefit from a smaller class size, focussed intervention and dedicated social worker support. Once they are ready the children will rejoin their peer group in regular classes.

The great news is that we have raised more than our target and so we will be going forward as quickly as possible to get this new class off the ground. The first step will be to build a new classroom for the class – our success with the feeding programme has meant that the other classrooms are very full. At the same time, our partners in Kenya will be identifying children who would benefit most from the programme. We will keep you posted as the work progresses.

Kipawa's Christmas Appeal this year is raising funds to support a new 'Kickstarter class' in Mukuyu School.

A Kickstarter class is designed to help reintegrate kids that have missed large parts of their schooling back into the school environment. These are often the children who are least well-off and who will benefit most from the smaller class size, social work support and focussed intervention to Kickstart their education.

So far, we are delighted to say we have managed to raise £2,046.25 – over 80% of the total of £2,500 needed to set up the class! Thank you so much to everyone who has contributed so far.

We know it's an expensive time of year for many of you, but please support us if you can – whatever you can give will really make a difference to the lives of all the children that get a second chance at an education.

Thanks to your very generous donations, we have already raised nearly 40% of our Christmas Appeal fundraising target! We are very grateful, but there's still a way to go.

This year we are raising money to open a Kickstarter class in Mukuyu School. A kickstarter class is designed to help reintegrate kids that have missed large parts of their schooling back into the school environment. These are often the children who are least well off in the community and they will benefit from a smaller class size, focussed intervention and dedicated social worker support. Once they are ready, the children will helped to rejoin their peer group in regular classes.

We need to raise at least £2,500 to get this idea off the ground. Please help these vulnerable children to Kickstart their education.

Firstly, we want to say thank you for your support since we started Kipawa in 2010. You have helped us to:

Feed more than 700 children at school every day - more than 250,000 meals!

Increase the school population by 80%,

Provide sanitary towels to more than 80 girls, enabling them to attend school,

Employ a nursery teacher, counsellor and social workers at Mukuyu School,

Build or refurbish 5 classrooms,

Sponsor 14 young people to go to secondary school. And more!

Here’s what the kids want to tell you:

This year, our Christmas Appeal is to raise funds for a Kickstarter class and we are asking you to support us once again.

A Kickstarter class is designed to help reintegrate kids that have missed large parts of their schooling back into the school environment. These are often the children who are least well off in the community and they will benefit from a smaller class size, focussed intervention and dedicated social worker support. Once they are ready, the children will helped to rejoin their peer group in regular classes.

We need to raise £2,500 to Kickstart this idea. Please help these vulnerable children to Kickstart their education.